This comic includes the issues #26, and #27 plus the comic "Much Ado About Deadpool". #26, "Heart-Shaped Box" has Deadpool in New York with his girlfriend Shiklah celebrating Valentine's Day. But someone is intent on interrupting the festivities and that someone is Madcap who left him a human heart inside a box of chocolates. Deadpool leaves it with S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Preston to run the DNA on it and find out who it is. The heart belongs to an Eastern European Torpedo gang member named Kris Kipiniak. S.H.I.E.L.D. can't go in so they're sending in Deadpool. Deadpool goes in katanas slashing but finds out that Kipiniak's brother who lived with him is also missing. So he goes to to their apartment and finds Madcap there. Or does he? It's great seeing Shiklah in this one even if it's only briefly. Her and Deadpool are a deadly combination, especially to each other.

In #27, "And Now For Something Completely Different", this takes place when Captain America was altered by a cosmic cube and was working as a sleeper agent for Hydra. There are three Captain Americas at the Lincoln Memorial causing trouble and Agent Coulson has called in Captain America who was supposed to be working on something with Deadpool that night. So Deadpool decides to help out with the situation. It turns out that the three Captain Americas are from the future. A bad future that the current Captain America creates and they hope to change it by killing Captain America. But Deadpool and Agent Coulson can't let that happen. The interplay between Coulson and Deadpool is hilarious.

The last one and probably my favorite is "Much Ado About Deadpool" where he gets dropped into the land of Shakespeare. Once there he meets a ghost proclaiming to be his dead father that he must avenge by killing the king who has killed him and married the Queen (Hamlet). Then he meets two women, one who wants him to kill the king because he is the father of her love, Romeo and her sworn enemy(Romeo and Juliet) and the other woman wants to rule in the king's place as the Macbeths (Macbeth). The King swears that the two women were his ungrateful daughters Goneril and Regan, making him King Lear and cuts off Deadpool's head before being pursued offstage by a bear (A Winter's Tale). Deadpool just wants to go back home and has no idea how to get there so he finds himself in the library with Prospero (The Tempest) who lends him the books he needs to figure out what exactly is going on and what to do next. As is typical with any Deadpool comic or Shakespeare tragedy there are a lot of dead bodies lying at the end of the book. The writer really played with the Shakespeare tales and made them fun and very enjoyable. This was a fabulous book that contained three great comics all in one package and you really can't ask for more than that. I give it five out of five stars.

Quotes

-Why should emotions receive their own festivals? Is there a holiday dedicated to the people you hate?

-It’s called Thanksgiving, Shiklah.

-Shiklah and Deadpool (Deadpool #26 “Heart-Shaped Box”) ( )